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Long form rantings from a recovering 7 foot tall cactus.

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HTTP Speed

Since I was writing recently about getting oak to work under Deno, Deno Deploy, Node.js, Bun and Cloudflare Workers, I started to wonder if there would be performance differences. Well I found out.

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11 Mar 2024 · 11 min read
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The Usual Suspects

The Javascript eco-system is varied these days and JSR is attempting to be a package registry up for the challenge. I wanted to share my experience of taking the middleware framework I originally wrote for Deno and making it work under Node.js, Bun and Cloudflare Workers.

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9 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
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JSR first impressions

JSR is a new package repository being introduced by the team at Deno that aims to solve many problems in the Javascript eco-system. I was invited to take part in very early access to it and want to share my impressions.

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12 Feb 2024 · 15 min read
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Leaving Deno Land

I left Deno at the end of October 2022 and have some reflections on what it has been like since then.

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8 Jul 2023 · 6 min read
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A Year in Deno Land

I started working full time on Deno on the 21st of September 2020 and wanted to share some of my thoughts.

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5 Sept 2021 · 13 min read
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Deno, CDNs and Types

Deno and some CDNs offer an easy and powerful way to develop.

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11 Jul 2021 · 10 min read
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Deno is a Browser for Code

Explaining the different mental model Deno has about managing dependant code.

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28 May 2020 · 15 min read
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Bundling in Deno

I've been working on Deno for a while now, and one of the features I am proud of, which I wanted to share a bit more detail on, is how we do bundling.

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10 Dec 2019 · 8 min read
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Experiments with Deno

My early explorations into Deno.

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31 May 2018 · 5 min read
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TSConf 2018

I got the opportunity to attend TSConf 2018. It was the worlds first focused conference on TypeScript and the lead organiser was my former employer SitePen.

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13 Mar 2018 · 22 min read
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Going Down Under

After over 11 years of calling the UK my home, Simon and I are moving to Australia.

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3 Jan 2018 · 2 min read
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Sick America

Having now lived full time outside of the US for over a decade, in the UK where we have socialised medical care. A word I was taught from all aspects as evil and anti-American. I can say without a doubt, I would never go back.

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25 Jun 2017 · 6 min read
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Fanboy

I got to be a fanboy this week.

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16 Jun 2017 · 3 min read
personal

Writing more?

I am going to try to commit to writing and blogging a bit more.

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10 Jun 2017 · 0 min read
rant

Transport for London Craziness

According to the Telepgraph, Transport for London is about to open a public consultation on several things about “minicabs” that are just insane and are clearly an attempt to try to hinder Uber and other similar “on demand” transport apps.

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30 Sept 2015 · 2 min read
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Dignity

When the Supreme Court in the US ruled two years ago that the Federal Government could not ignore us as a couple, I broke down in tears.

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27 Jun 2015 · 2 min read

Rewriting History

On Friday, Simon and I re-wrote history. We walked into the Wandsworth Registrar’s Office and walked out as a couple who had been married since December 2006.

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12 Mar 2015 · 2 min read
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Gastric Sleeve Two Years On

I am coming up on almost 3 years since I have had my Gastric Sleeve weight loss surgery. Some people might wonder how I am doing and how does the long term look like for someone with the surgery. Well, the news is good.

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27 Dec 2013 · 3 min read

Marriage Equality

Being “gay” does not dominate my life and I don’t often think about being “gay”. I do often thing of my civil partner, Simon, much as I would assume any married couple would.

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27 Mar 2013 · 3 min read
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Dojo 2.0

I have been working on a few things which I will be trying to campaign for as being part of Dojo 2.0.

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3 Mar 2013 · 10 min read

ES5 Accessor Properties

I have been messing around this weekend with Object.defineProperty and realising some unanticipated behaviour when using accessor properties and prototype inheritance.

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3 Feb 2013 · 1 min read
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Dojo and Node

Using client side JavaScript frameworks on server side NodeJS? “Crazy…” I can hear you mumble to yourself. Well, I tend to disagree.

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1 Dec 2012 · 8 min read
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Equality versus Fairness

Being an American expatriate, especially living in the United Kingdom, gives a particular perspective on US society. I think this is highlighted during the Presidential election, when you see Americans en masse struggle with the concepts of equality and fairness.

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17 Oct 2012 · 2 min read
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Soclialised Medicine Again...

Unlucky for me, I have had another up close and personal experience with the “evil incarnate” that US public opinion raised me on of socialised medicine. Paul Ryan’s recent comment about “death panels” have made me again desire to speak about my experiences.

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23 Sept 2012 · 9 min read
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Criticism of Dojo?

With the release of Dojo 1.8, I thought I might share my thoughts on criticisms of Dojo and if I think they are valid. So I am going to try to take an honest look at those criticisms and give my opinion of where the community is at.

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17 Aug 2012 · 6 min read

Goodbye TextMate 2, Hello Sublime Text 2

I tried, I really tried TextMate, but having dealt with an alpha of 2 for a long time with no clear indication of what is going on, dwindling community innovation and just a few really annoying things that I couldn’t continue to put up with, I have this morning tried Sublime Text 2 and I am afraid I am not looking back.

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30 Jun 2012 · 2 min read
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dojo/parser

Ok, what is becoming a bit of a trend, I am adding a third to my series on forthcoming features in Dojo core in 1.8.

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25 May 2012 · 6 min read
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dojo/promise

It seems that my dojo/request article got a few views, so I figured I would take a moment to talk about dojo/promise, another major enhancement in the core of the Dojo Toolkit in 1.8. Mark Wubben rewrote the promise API while keeping it compatible with the “modern” Dojo promise API.

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23 May 2012 · 3 min read
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dojo/request

In the forthcoming Dojo Toolkit 1.8, the dojo/request package, written by Bryan Forbes, has some really “cool” features in my opinion.

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20 May 2012 · 3 min read

Marriage...

On the 6th December 2006 I entered into a civil partnership with Simon. It was about a year after the UK made such an option open to us. I encountered the immigration officer years later as I became an immigration advocate in the UK. He indicated to me that my proposed civil partnership visa was the first one he had ever issued.

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12 May 2012 · 2 min read

Just git on with it...

Ok, coding nerd moment here. I have been becoming more and more involved in my spare time with the Dojo Toolkit. For me it keeps my mind in an enjoyable "problem solving" mode, which I enjoy, versus necessarily all the fun of being a senior IT manager affords itself, where I wouldn’t get near the sharp end of code even if I wanted to.

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24 Jan 2012 · 1 min read

2012

I have tried to make New Year’s resolutions before, but they usually come to naught. So this isn’t a news years resolution post, this is just a plan.

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8 Jan 2012 · 2 min read

Two Idiots Abroad

My boss and I recently went on trip to India. We called ourselves "Two Idiots Abroad" which was apropos we felt since we worked for Sky and Sky had the TV Show An Idiot Abroad.

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18 Dec 2011 · 5 min read
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20 Year High School Reunion

Well, the other week I attended my 20 Year High School Reunion. First was the shock and horror realising that I graduated High School over 20 years ago. Then was the realisation that I felt a compelling need to go back.

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9 Oct 2011 · 8 min read
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Surrogacy...

While this might be a controversial topic for some, a gay couple considering surrogacy, for Simon and myself it has become a realistic proposition. This weekend we attended the Alternative Families Show 2011 in London.

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18 Sept 2011 · 3 min read

In Memory...

Ten years on and I still remember that day very well. I was working in Dublin, at a client site, looking down onto College Green. It happened that there were two other American’s in the office with me, my boss and a peer of mine. It was just another day.

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11 Sept 2011 · 6 min read
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Gastric Sleeve Update

A while ago, I wrote about my Gastric Sleeve surgery, and figured it was about time to provide an update. So 7 months on, and where am I at?

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10 Sept 2011 · 4 min read
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Socialised Medicine...

As I posted before, I had an accident when I was away in Canada on holiday. As an American living in the UK, I had always been stigmatised since I was young that “socialised medicine” was a bad thing, so it was with a bit of trepidation that upon my return to the UK I was going to have to jump into it with both feet.

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3 Sept 2011 · 7 min read
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UFC Match: Kit vs. Le Velo

Well, I held off telling anyone (except my boss at work), but I guess now is a good as time as any. I had a pretty serious bike accident when I was in Mont Tremblant on holiday.

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25 Aug 2011 · 4 min read
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Obama and Debt

Being a US expatriate, I feel it gives me a luxury of a 3rd party view of things in the US. While I have been a Democrat in my mind for a long time,it is more of a curiosity what happens.

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23 Jul 2011 · 3 min read
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News of the World

I often find myself questioning the collective wisdom of the UK. The situations with the News of the World is one such moment.

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8 Jul 2011 · 1 min read
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Data Crunch Crisis

I was reading an article in Slashdot today that got me thinking. I remember seeing an article about how Netflix represent 1/3 of network bandwidth in North America.

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19 Jun 2011 · 2 min read
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Disappointed

I am a little disappointed in this recent post from CNN. It really is only giving a narrow view of the subject. It is suggesting that bariatric surgery does not affect the mortality rate, but when you actually read the article, it indicates it is a fairly narrow study.

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13 Jun 2011 · 1 min read
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Gastric Sleeve Weight Loss

On the 10th of February, I had a gastric sleeve, which is a surgery that removes 75-80% of your stomach and essentially turns your stomach into a tube (or “sleeve”).

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8 Jun 2011 · 4 min read

PHP Restful

I have been working with the dojo Toolkit for a couple of years and one of the things that I had to do was implement a RESTful class handler in PHP to support the ability to implement RESTful services.

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21 May 2011 · 1 min read
movies

Inception

I read a review that said "Sometimes, expectations are exceeded... Welcome to that day."

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19 Jul 2010 · 3 min read
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Returning...

I used to keep a quite regular blog, but I stopped some number of years ago.

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5 Jul 2010 · 1 min read

Hardware and Hardtimes...

Ok, I will admit I have been totally remiss in keeping my blog up to date.

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8 Oct 2007 · 1 min read

Lost...

I have been losing weight since I went to Structure House in October 2006. Originally 318 lbs, I have gotten myself down to around 228 lbs on most days. My original goal was to get to 218 lbs by September 2007 and it looks like I might make it.

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28 Jul 2007 · 1 min read
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School Rates.

Well, it seems that the Universities partly got their way with the rate increases.

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10 Mar 2007 · 1 min read
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Going Up...

I am a fairly active member of the UK Yankee community on the web, a community that provides support and information to US expatriates in the UK.

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8 Mar 2007 · 1 min read
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Proposed Increase in UK Visas

IND is proposing that fees be increased for visas. While it is going to the House of Commons to be debated, it is unlikely that it won't be approved.

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7 Mar 2007 · 1 min read
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IND Sneakily Removes ILE for Those Married Long Term

Come April 2, 2007, the IND will no longer issue Indefinite Leave to Remain to foreign nationals settling in the UK have have been married to their spouses for over six years.

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1 Dec 2006 · 1 min read

and so it continues.

Now I am not naive enough to think that the NSA doesn’t do things to spy on American’s without proper oversight or permission, but the amount of information that has come to light is rather amazing and takes consideration.

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11 May 2006 · 1 min read
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outlaw political parties.

I was reading an editorial by Paul Johnson in the May 8th, 2006 issue of Forbes magazine. He suggests that political parties are the root cause of most corruption in the world. He makes a strong argument, that in a democracy, parties limit the will of the people.

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8 May 2006 · 2 min read

and so it begins.

Well, it was going to happen sooner or later... And now it has happened.

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6 May 2006 · 1 min read
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mini disc dud.

This article on OSNews tries to argue for Sony and Hi-MD over "mp3 players". I used to be a huge fan of MiniDisc, but I am afraid it has failed as a format.

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3 Apr 2006 · 1 min read
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greenback aliens.

Immigration in the United States has been at the forefront of the news the past several weeks. I have my own opinion on what should be done about the "illegal immigrant problem."

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2 Apr 2006 · 3 min read
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asterisk and conferencing.

Ok, more Asterisk news… It seems that my friends at GDS Partners have been busy.

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26 Mar 2006 · 1 min read
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asterisk and gvp.

I recently heard from my friends at GDS Partners that are working in the Asterisk and Genesys space. I also have noticed a few hits on my web page about GVP and Asterisk. It inspired me to keep up with my Asterisk experiences.

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1 Mar 2006 · 2 min read
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new zealand.

It has been several years since I have been able to travel like I have wanted to. In order to celebrate my return to determining my own destiny, my partner and I have decided to go to New Zealand for 20 days.

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1 Mar 2006 · 1 min read
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crackpots and their free speech.

It is amazing, that in what you consider a moderm society, that you find out that certain things are not as you would expect.

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20 Feb 2006 · 1 min read
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cartoons.

This has been brewing in my mind for a while now. I see a lot of what is being said in the media about “cartoon demonstrations” and what I see is a lot of fear.

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9 Feb 2006 · 2 min read
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do no evil.

There has been much ado about Google’s decision to filter search results in China.

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26 Jan 2006 · 1 min read
politics

electronic voting.

Every once in a while I read an article on the Internet about electronic voting, and most of the time it is about how bad it is.

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24 Jan 2006 · 2 min read
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where is the outrage.

The US Department of Justice, in hopes of proving that the government needs more control over the lives of its private citizens after being told it cannot by the Supreme Court, last year requested that the top search organizations hand over information on the search terms of private citizens.

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19 Jan 2006 · 2 min read

tin foil hats.

Wacko people saying they blew up their new $20 bills by microwaving the RFID tags out of them can be found here.

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27 Mar 2004 · 1 min read

who let the dogs out.

It seems that Clarke has gotten his wish after his appearance on 60 Minutes. The hounds from hell have been unleashed on the earth.

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27 Mar 2004 · 1 min read

ack-ins.

This low carb thing sucks! I feel like crap, but I am losing weight.

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21 Mar 2004 · 0 min read

donkey diddling.

Ok, maybe I got a hang-up with devient sex, but oh well. This from odd news from Reuters.

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17 Mar 2004 · 1 min read

speaking analy.

From the News of the Weird...

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14 Mar 2004 · 0 min read

mail-box madness.

Someone ran into my mailbox yesterday, knocked the mailbox of its post and left it lying in my driveway. I didn't even get as much as a little note.

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12 Mar 2004 · 0 min read

enormous penis.

Do you ever feel like your sense of humour is unappreciated? Do you feel sometimes it isn't even worth telling people what you find funny, because no one is going to laugh as loud as you do at something?

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7 Mar 2004 · 1 min read

salad bar brawl.

I love The Smoking Gun. It always amazes me how us average people can become really weird in an instant, and how famous people have just as many problems as us.

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6 Mar 2004 · 1 min read

things that go pop in the night.

Well... I knew it was going to happen sooner or later, I just kept hoping for later. My Mitsubishi 900u monitor "blew up" yesterday.

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3 Mar 2004 · 1 min read

we loves the oscars.

Well, all I can say is that it was nice that Lord of the Rings won 11 Oscars.

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29 Feb 2004 · 1 min read

depressed homosexual tendencies.

I was a bit frustrated last week. I had purchased tickets long ago to see Rufus Wainwright in concert.

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29 Feb 2004 · 1 min read

institutions.

I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher and Sir Ian McKellen was on. The subject of gay marriage came up.

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29 Feb 2004 · 1 min read

First Post

Well, finally couldn't stand it anymore.

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29 Feb 2004 · 1 min read